1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Jake Seid of Stone Bridge Ventures (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Your point about the fund sizes being larger and mitigating the later stage pro rata opportunity is well taken. I’m going to elaborate on my question. There is a lot of competition to get into some of the deals for Series A and Series B. If you look at the numbers, there are

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Bootstrap First with Services, Raise Money Later: John Stewart, CEO of MapAnything (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Was there a specific channel through which you were acquiring customers? Where were you getting the leads from? John Stewart: We built relationships at the ground level at Salesforce. As they were selling deals, especially in the small business segment, they needed integrators who were willing to take those deals and roll out

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Hernan Kazah of Kaszek Ventures (Part 1)

Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Hernan Kazah of Kaszek Ventures was recorded in November 2016.  Hernan Kazah, Co-founder and Managing Partner at Kaszek Ventures, is one of the earliest VC firms to start investing in the Latin American market.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Jake Seid of Stone Bridge Ventures (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What about geography? What’s your preference? Jake Seid: Proactively, I’m focused on Silicon Valley and outside of Silicon Valley opportunistically. Sramana Mitra: Talk about your current portfolio. What are the highlights? What have you invested in? How do you decide what you have chosen to invest in? Jake Seid: We look at great

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Bootstrap First with Services, Raise Money Later: John Stewart, CEO of MapAnything (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Why build on top of Salesforce? John Stewart: We had built our MRP system on top of it when I had the manufacturing company. Salesforce’s ecosystem was really starting to explode. It was everywhere. I knew how to build a services business very well. It seemed to be that it was less specialized

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May 3 – 398th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 398th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, May 3, 2018, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea. You’ll receive straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and answers to any of your questions. Others can register

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Thought Leaders in Corporate Innovation: Paolo Juvara, Group Vice President, Oracle Applications Lab (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: One point we should probably highlight is the intellectual property issue. When you are going through the One Million by One Million program on your own, you own the intellectual property. Of course, this is an Oracle program. It’s a very reasonable conclusion that the intellectual property belongs to Oracle. For everyone who’s

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May 2 – Rendezvous with Sramana Mitra in Menlo Park, CA

For entrepreneurs interested to meet and chat with Sramana Mitra in person, please join us for our weekly informal group meetups. If you are living in the San Francisco Bay Area or are just in town for a visit, we hope you will add these meetups to your calendar and join us. Pre-registration is required, REGISTER

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